Convertible vehicle having a roof storable in a storage compartment

US7497499B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Magna Car Top Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Halbweiss · Erbach, DE
• Kristian Franz · Stuttgart, DE
• Horst Meier · Echterdingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 12, 2006
• Grant date: Mar 3, 2009
• Expiry date: Jul 21, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J7/145
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle includes a roof, a compartment, and a lid. A roof kinematic system moves the roof between a closed position and a stored position in which the roof is in the compartment. The lid is movable between a closed position in which the lid covers the compartment and an opened position. First and second locks include respective closing parts movable between locked and unlocked positions. A shared kinematic system connects the closing parts to synchronously move them together. When the roof is in its stored position within the compartment and the lid is in its closed position over the compartment, the shared kinematic system moves the closing parts to their locked position such that the first part interacts with the roof and locks the roof within the compartment and the second part interacts with the lid and locks the lid over the compartment.